We always want what we cannot have. When we're young, we want to stay out late, have romantic relationships, and be ____. However, when we're ____， we want to go back to being young and we ___ the days when we didn't have to worry about complex love affairs, ___ pressure, and money problems.
Young people believe adulthood ____ freedom from parents and schoolwork. When they get older, they feel that ____ is freedom from work pressure and family responsibilities. To ____ this feeling, people say, “The grass is always ____ on the other side of the fence.”
As ____， we like to be like adults but as young adults, we ____ to be young again. We think about staying out late and ____ our own money to spend. Suddenly, they see that love can result in ____ hearts; staying out late makes it hard to get ready for ____ the next morning. They find out that adult life is not as ____ as they thought it would be and suddenly, ___ becomes very scary.
Life is ____. It gives us time to ____ but also requires us to work. The time will come when we must grow up and we will always look back wishing we ____ being young a bit longer. That time will not come back. It is normal to want what we cannot have but the ____ is that to be happy is to appreciate what we have. That is the first step to grow up. ____ life becomes more complex, we will not regret the time we wasted wishing we were adults.

A．comfortable B．dependent C．independent D．polite

A．older B．defeated C．married D．confident

A．like B．forget C．regret D．miss

A．study B．job C．age D．health

A．creates B．shows C．means D．limits

A．childhood B．adulthood C．parenthood D．neighborhood

A．reduce B．describe C．experience D．understand

A．greener B．thinner C．yellow D．colorful

A．researchers B．teenagers C．adults D．elders

A．wish B．decide C．return D．stop

A．making B．having C．worrying about D．showing off

A．healthy B．ambitious C．broken D．excited

A．breakfast B．school C．exercise D．work

A．rich B．busy C．poor D．easy

A．life B．love C．career D．future

A．long B．short C．fair D．beautiful

A．study B．think C．play D．live

A．stopped B．enjoyed C．imagined D．tried

A．reason B．result C．dream D．truth

A．If B．When C．Unless D．Before